Surprised this worked out so well, considering we only tried staging it once.

Pringles Technique If do right, no can defend.

Exploring the Salar

Salar de Uyuni, photo ops

I noticed that almost all the salt shapes below the water were six-sided. Wonder if …

Lunch spread at the Salt Hotel. Just a cup of Coke for me.

The mood of the day (Oksana and I were very sick)

I had enough energy to do this, at least

Close up

Driving back to Uyuni

Counting down the time to our hotel beds

Salt pyramids

Gearing up for our second Uyuni tour

Uyuni Train Graveyard

Textures

Uyuni Train Graveyard

Shut yer train hole!

Look out below

Monkeying around

E=mc^2

Or is it, "ON," upside down?

Train Graveyard

Uyuni Train Graveyard

At the train graveyard

Getting some perspective

Bags of salt

Salt house, truck

Cute and cuddly

Ride the llama!

Salt bricks

Posh Salt Hotel, Cristal Samaña

Oksana relaxing in Cristal Samaña

In a really posh hotel made of salt

Walking to the flats after lunch, "for digestion."

Our Porteño friends on their way to the Salar

Making way for the SUVs

Salt hut by the side of the road

The beginnings of the salt flats, not yet wet

Kind of looks like snow

Looking out toward the flats

Driving out onto the flats in the rainy season

Jeep on the horizon

Coming back from the salt hotel, salt mounds

Desolate hiker

View from the down low

Getting briefed

Closeup on the ground

No time like the present to start up a new jogging routine again!

Exploring on tip-toes

Walking on water

Where were you hiding your Land Cruiser?

Hold that pose

You try to pose like that. I dare you.

Okay, I was jumping.

Instructing them to move where they needed to be, in Spanish, was tough

Kid of falls apart when you look at it another way

Pull my finger

Honestly, even without the perspective trickery, my neck just doesn’t look right.

Our relationship in a nutshell.

Spelling out OHIO for Dusty and Wendy

We stole Wendy and Dusty’s idea

France turned out better than Alaska, but the Argentinian’s should have signed up for…

Walking back to the SUV

Salt piles drying

Probably shooting some video or another

Driving on to the salt hotel

Reflections

Floating islands (Actually, that’s not true. It’s more of a peninsula.)

Clouds brewing

Reflections

Salt hotel looming in the distance

I’m trying to point out home much salt I have on my clothes while eating Skittles.

Some size differences are too hard to overcome with F-stops

Close up on salt crystals forming

Salt pyramid plucked from the ground

Shimmering Flats

Rémy and Aurélie posing for their own photos

Check out their site at: http://www.newzfromtheworld.blogspot.com/

People roaming the flats

Everyone wants photos

Jumping for joy because she feels better on this trip!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Couldn’t get rid of the ripples with only a 10 second self-timer on the camera

Never really turned out, but at least it shows my best side

Feet and flags

Viva Argentina

Oh no, they noticed us!

Joachim decided that since we couldn’t spell out Argentina earlier, that they’d get t…

This is how the sunset began

The wind picked up a little, rippling the reflections out of existence.

Oksana in the "hot" tub.

Trying to get a photo of me in the hot tub, but it never really turned out

Oh noes!

This is me, running from a dinosaur

Shoot it! Shooooot it!

Grr. Arrgh.

This is me, riding a dinosaur. "What? It was too late in the day — too dark -…

Notice the conspicuous lack of an American flag.

"Okay, stand up straight. Smile. Now tap your foot! Cooooool!"

Around now we set up a camcorder on a tripod to timelapse the sunset

Profile

Darker, still sort of windy

This is off to our left, er, to the south, I think

That person isn’t nearly as far away as they seem

South view again

Storm is gathering intensity

Call this Northwest

Walking into a storm

Wide angle

The colors of the sunset

Sunset on the salt flats

Always reminds me of a kaleidoscope

Self portrait at sunset

Walking on glass

Rémy and Aurélie Parisot taking sunset photos

Floating islands

Here comes the rain

At first glance, I always think this guy is going to the bathroom

Rain

Rain over the islands

Checking another angle on the sunset

I decide to walk out onto the flats before the storm arrives

Walking away from the group

My feet were cold at this point. Just sayin’

Playing with color settings

Hrm. Guess I should have paid more attention to the crop on this one…

Deep reds

Continuing my walk out onto the flats

Passing the storm

Coming back

Trying not to look directly at the camera…

Okay, trying to look at the camera this time, I guess

Storm is starting to actually look threatening

This was the scene all evening. The reflection of the storm clouds made it look like…

Northern edge of the storm

Bow-shock with natural color

Both sides of the storm

Guess I couldn’t decide which photo of this I liked best.

Photos at sunset Photo by Rémy Dahan

Sunset photos

The only other group of the flats that late

Ooo’s and Ahhh’s after every boom of thunder

Posing at sunset

"I’m on the salt flats at sunset!"

Nature? You. Are. Awesome!

We tried hard to get handheld lightning shots here. Couldn’t.

Just out for a stroll at sunset

Photograph of a random photographer

Sunset colors

Tear in the sky

Chimping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimping

Huddled together against the storm

Switching the DSLR to the tripod

Waiting for lightning

The lightning was coming so fast and flashing so long, I wondered aloud if it would b…

It stayed so long that the bolt was still visible on the third image in the burst of …

It was almost impossible NOT to get a lightning photo

Believe it or not, those bolts came down MILES away

Just set the camera on a tripod and used the 2-second timer. Practically every frame …

I got so many, I played with the crop a lot

Sunset, lightning, and refections. So, so cool.

Wide lightning

Thin bolt

If we form a band, this will go on our album cover.

Twin bolts

Deep blue

Probably the most lightning caught on one shot the whole night

Heavy rain

Bright

Brighter

Brightest

Time to head back; we were SO cold I’ll bet the wind chill was way below zero

Above and below

Color schemes

The lightning could change the whole sky

Maybe time to move a little quicker

Zapped

Clouds are squeezing out the sun

Purple

Lightning reflections

Couldn’t-resist-framegrab from the video I’m editing

Couldn’t-resist-framegrab from the video I’m editing

"It’s time to go!" "Okay, just one more photo! Hold it! Hold it! Got i…

Aftermath of the salt flats. And, of course, no hot shower at the place we stayed tha…

Our outstanding-in-every-way Uyuni tour group!

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Welcome to Postcard Valet

Postcard Valet is a travel blog and video podcast by Arlo and Oksana Midgett. They just returned to Juneau, Alaska, after almost three full years of travel and living abroad. Many of their stories, photos, and videos have yet to be shared...